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# 1637 Champions Of Breakfast
Is there a mitzva to eat two seudos on Purim day, the first one before chatzos?...
# 1636 Easy Meat
Does one have to eat meat on the seuda of Purim?...
# 1635 The Name of the Game
Is this true that Rav Miller forbids playing with a Rubik’s Cube on Shabbos due to borer? Is this a chumra, or me’ikar hadin it is assur? An additional shailah. Since the cube can be taken...
# 1634 Let The Good Times Begin
We say mishenichnas Adar marbim besimcha, when Adar begins we are have to increase our joy. For one that doesn’t have a court case with Goyim, is in good health and always does try to do mitzvos with ...
# 1633 More Minor Details
Re- question 1616 - Rav Miller shlita paskened to me not to count a katan for a minyan under any circumstances. I would like to kindly request a clarification: If I am in a place where they are in f...
# 1632 One To Many
Re- prior question (1631) on two classes of judgment. Since we always say that the power of the community and Klal Yisroel as well as the din horabbim or communal judgment supersedes and preempts the ...
# 1631 Judgment Call
Why are we being judged on our Yamim Tovim on different items, such as grain during Pesach, fruits on Shavuot and water during Sukkot? Were we not all already judged in the Yemei Hadin of Rosh Hashana...
# 1630 Bread And Butter Shailah
I live in the Clanton Park area but I frequent a bagel store in the Bathurst/Lawrence area. I recently noticed that they have a sign that says their garlic breadsticks are dairy. Apparently they are s...
# 1629 Not Worth One’s Salt
I received once a very beautiful silver set of filled salt and pepper shakers; did the people who send them comply with the mitzva of mishloach mannot? does the salt and pepper count as two foods lech...
# 1628 Not Mishenichnas Odor
Hello Rav, Q. The kitzur Shulchan Aruch (5:11) says that after flatulating, its forbidden to utter any holy words until the odor is gone. Would the same apply to thinking Torah thoughts or reading ...
# 1627 Love Will Find A Way
The mitzvah of loving Hashem is in essence only a feeling and emotion of the heart. This being similar to fearing Hashem. Are those feelings, without images or added thoughts, permitted when one is i...
# 1626 Gentile’s Torah Show and Tell
I have to do a show and tell on some cultural artifact for school. Class is all non-Jews. Am I allowed to show them my tzitzis and explain the basic ideas behind this mitzvah, or is it forbidden to te...
# 1625 Good Bye To Good Bye?
Hello Rav, The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (5:14) says its forbidden to speak (or think) sacred matters (davar sh’b’kedushah) in a bathhouse (meirchatz). I’m wondering how to apply this hala...
# 1624 Thoughts For Food
Re- your questions 1595-1598 on permitted liquid marijuana tincture drops for one that is medically recommended in its use. Can you be yoitze with shalach manos if you send a vial of the tincture sinc...
# 1623 The Law of the Spirit
If one sends hard liquor as one of the manos on Purim, is that valid? A normal person can drink only a very small amount of this liquor, so perhaps it should be considered that one sent only a small a...
# 1622 Not The Brightest Bulb?
What is Rav Shlomo’s opinion is regards to the shabbulb use on Shabbos? It is described on their web page as: The SHABBULB is certified to hide and reveal light with no risk of violating the laws of...
# 1621 Gifted in Gifting
Biur Halacha brings from Chayei Adam that the mishloach manos have to be in accordance with the chashivus of the recipient (if giving to a wealthy person, one has to give something that he will apprec...
# 1620 Nuts About Nuts
Flying a night flight towards New York from Eretz Yisroel on an El Al plane, probably most passengers are Jewish. A passenger boarded the plane and put his large stash of nuts in the pocket of the sea...
# 1619 Oy or Joy to the Goy
(See question 1617 above) My second question, is that although the term, “goy” simply means a person of the nations, it seems to always be used in the pejorative. How can we be Or HaGoyim if we look d...
# 1618 Two For One
I saw that the Sefer HaChinuch divides Mishpatim into two separate Sidrot, each with its own count of mitzvos. He calls the second one “Im Kesef”. Why?...